Phil Reyneri, a visual tech who recently toured with Skrillex, says the prince of EDM wanted an interstellar coronation after his fall stadium tour, aptly named the Mothership. Specifically, he considered flying 100 partiers to the moon...

The Great Pyramid of Cholula

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Unfortunately this proved logistically infeasible, presumably, even in the fairy-dust and Transformers world everyone's favorite dubstep DJ inhabits. In the end, the crew settled on a spot next to Tlachihualtepetl, the great pyramid of Cholula, which is located in Puebla, Mexico.

"We feel pretty confident that if the aliens do in fact fly down and destroy us all, we'll be on the front lines," Corey Johnson, Skrillex's stage designer, told Bloch.

Skrillex could not be reached for comment, and his manager declined comment as well.

Too bad. Because we've heard that you can get seriously dubtarded in zero gravity.

Ben Westhoff is the former L.A. Weekly music editor, and author of Dirty South and Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap. He's written for Rolling Stone, Vice, Village Voice and Deadspin, and is currently a columnist for the Guardian.